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Wild Fruits and Sustainable Rural Development

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Wild Fruits: Composition, Nutritional Value and Products

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The paper presents the state of local knowledge on the edible indigenous plants which occur naturally with regard to their contributions to the nutrition, medicine and household economy of local communities of the Eastern Sudan.

The paper further elucidates the socio-cultural and economic importance of some plants, which in addition to direct dietary benefits combated hunger signs in the hilly areas of the region. Indigenous and wild fruit tree population’s survival were witnessed to be correlated with a complex of edaphic and environmental factors. The sustainability and continuity of these species among the local Beja tribes has been due to the understanding of the intimate relationship between land, vegetation, and the populations surviving on these resources as well as the strong tradition surrounding them.

The local edible fruit species which exist in mountainous areas of Red Sea State (RSS) in Sudan include Hyphaene thebaica (Doum), Grewia tenax (Guddaim), Ziziphus spina-christi, (nabag), Podostelma schimperi (hadofleit), Detarium microcarpum, Nopal cactus (sabir), Adansonia digitata, Annona squamosa, Antidesma montanum, Calamus manillensis, Debregeasia longifolia and others.

Further the household subsistence economy is envisaged to be enhanced through planning production, utilization and sales of wild fruits which act as cushioning effect for the vulnerable communities. Key policy interventions on poverty reduction and also on exploring research needs and priorities to enhance, sustain and increase the already valuable availability of domesticated indigenous fruit trees.

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Abbreviations

NTFPs:

Non Timber Food Products

RD:

Rural Development

RESAP:

Red Sea Area Program

RSS:

Red Sea State

SARDF:

South African Rural Development Framework

SRD:

Sustainable Rural Development

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  1. Ministry of Health, Food Safety Laboratory, Port Sudan, Sudan

    Eatimad Babikir

  2. Red Sea University, Port Sudan, Sudan

    Ahmed Abdel Aziz Ahmed

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  1. Ghibaish College of Science & Technology, Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage Center, Ghibaish, Sudan

    Abdalbasit Adam Mariod

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Babikir, E., Ahmed, A.A.A. (2019). Wild Fruits and Sustainable Rural Development. In: Mariod, A. (eds) Wild Fruits: Composition, Nutritional Value and Products. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31885-7_2

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